cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a CDR/CDRW/DVD/BluRay recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD/DVD/BD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and
ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives; audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs; full multi-session support; CD-RWs, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, BD-R/BD-RE;
and TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD/BD writers.

mkisofs is used for premastering iso9660 filesystems which are used on CDROMs. The output of mkisofs can then be sent to a CDROM writer with a utility such as cdrecord. It has support for many formats, including Rock Ridge, Joliet, and Apple HFS (beta).

Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver, maintained for more than 30 years.
It saves many files together into a single tape or
disk archive, and can restore individual files
from the archive. It includes command line
interfaces for the "tar", "Sun-Tar", "cpio",
"pax", and "gnutar" command-line syntax. It
includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher,
multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive
extended file flags, automatic archive format
detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression,
remote archives, and special features that allow
star to be used for full and incremental backups.
It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program.

Ved (visual editor) is a small and very fast screen-oriented text editor that implements a user interface somewhere between vi and Emacs. It is powerful and easy to learn, and has no limitations on line length, file size, or the types of characters that may appear in a file. It is a highly portable editor for Unix and most other OSes.

Sformat allows you to format, partition, analyze, and repair SCSI disks.
Sformat is the first SCSI disk formatting utility for SunOS/Solaris. It should
run on many other OSes, but it will do so without the ability to manage
partitions.

Change is a non-interactive text editor, similar to sed, but much easier to
use. It works by substituting a specified target pattern in the source text
with another specified text pattern. It can operate on multiple files
specified on the command line, or it can operate upon stdin/stdout in filter
mode.

The calc command may be used to do simple integer calculations or to convert
numbers from one radix to another. Calc reads commands from stdin and prints
the result to stdout. The inpout radix for mumbers may be decimal (default),
octal (if starting with a '0') or hexadecimal (if starting with "0x"). The
output is always printed in four radices: decimal, octal, hexadecimal, and
binary. The decimal variant is printed in both signed and unsigned
representation. The result is printed in two variants using 32 bit and 64 bit
repesentations for the numbers.

compare is similar to cmp but faster and with
better readable output. compare examines one file
and standard in, or two files on a byte by byte
basis, and prints the file position of the first
difference it finds, first in decimal and then in
hexadecimal, followed by the differing byte
content in hexadecimal and a quoted character.

Makefiles is a high-level build system and suite of portability tools. It is
meant to be easier to use than autoconf and generally superior. The package
contains a set of rules that allows you to compile structured projects with
small and uniformly structured makefiles. All rules are located in a central
directory. Compiling the projects on different platforms can be done
simultaneously without having to modify any of the makefiles that are located
in the projects directories.

p is a pager like more or less. It is more conservative with screen handling
and thus does not screw up the screen as easily as more or less. p uses its
own termcap package with TERMPATH support that makes it easy to have a local
.termcap file in the user's home directory to override bad termcap entries. p
supports three text attributes for nroff: bold, italic, and bold-italic. p is
able to find patterns in higlighted text, unlike more or less. p also filters
out unprintable characters.

sdd is a replacement for a program called 'dd'. sdd is much faster than dd in cases where input block size (ibs) is not equal to the output block size (obs). Statistics are more easily understood than those from 'dd'. Timing available, -time option will print transfer speed Timing & Statistics available at any time with SIGQUIT (^\) Can seek on input and output Fast null input Fast null output. Support for the RMT (Remote Tape Server) protocol makes remote I/O fast and easy.

smake is a highly portable 'make' program that makes commands up to date based on rules in Makefiles and on the timestamps of the related files. It implements a complete superset of the features of the classical POSIX/Unix make program. It warns about typical misuse of dynamic macros that prevent portability of makefiles. Its automake features allow you to run scripts to automatically create rules for unknown platforms.

sfind is a highly portable and fully POSIX.1-2001
compliant implementation of the "find" utility. It
implements features like "-ls" and "-exec program
[argument ...] {} +" (the latter is the POSIX
built in "xargs"). It has no limitations on path
length. Directory loops caused by hard-linked
directories are handled gracefully.

The Schily Source Package System (SPS) is a source-based packaging
system that is developed for SchilliX (a OpenSolaris-based Unix
distribution) but is highly portable and works on many operating
systems. It "boots" from a single 10kb shell script and creates all
needed binaries from scratch. In contrast to other similar systems, it
is modular and reusable. It is based on the Schily Makefilesystem and
smake.

SchilliX is an OpenSolaris-based live CD and
distribution that is intended to help people
discover OpenSolaris. When installed on a hard
drive, it also allows developers to develop and
compile code in a pure OpenSolaris environment.
SchilliX tries to be as Sun Solaris compatible as
possible and to be the optimum development platform for Solaris and OpenSolaris.

Recent comments

A person apparently from behind a "competing" dead project (see frecode link for project codeville and long time dead server at codeville.org) is trying to discredit SCCS with pointless claims. Thank you for verifying that SCCS is on the right way and without problems!

If you for any reason believe that the GPL is non-free, please tag your comments to the related GPL projects. The CDDL however is an approved OSS license and thus does not limit you in any way. You of course can use CDDL programs for any purpose.